Go Facts: Nonfiction Reading and Writing

Grades K to 5

Make the reading and writing connection stronger! A comprehensive leveled reading and writing program for teaching the elements of nonfiction text.

Go Facts, arranged into two levels—Emergent/Early, Sets 1–4 (grades K–1), and Fluent/FluentPlus, Sets 5–10 (grades 2–4+)—contains all the resources you need to teach effective reading and writing lessons. By actively linking students' reading and writing activities, the program supports young readers in their attempts to learn the structures and conventions of nonfiction writing.

Go Facts includes 72 well-written, accurate, and easy-to-read Student Books organized into 10 progressive sets. Each Student Book acts as a text model and helps students internalize the structures, organizations, and conventions of informational report writing. Sets 1–4 include a Big Book version of one of the titles in the Set—perfect for modeling the elements of informational texts.

Go Facts Teaching Guides reinforce Phonemic Awareness/Phonics, Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Fluency. Each of the 10 sets includes a comprehensive Teaching Guide with all the tools you'll need for effective reading and writing lessons, including:

step-by-step lesson plans for reading and writing nonfiction

blackline masters for practicing and developing fluency

an assessment checklist to help measure students' progress

Sets 1–4 include phonemic awareness/phonics lessons and activity worksheets. Sets 5–10 include mini-lessons with supportive blackline masters to help teach each stage of the writing process.

Go Facts focuses on helping young students comprehend content through the integration of both reading and writing strategies to prepare students for a lifetime of reading and writing success.